79th Academy Awards ResultsThe winners have been named. I actually got several predictions right. Out of 24 categories…I got 11 right. Anyway the winners are in yellow. If its just aqua…that means I predicted correctly.

Performance by an actor in a leading roleLeonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson” (THINKFilm)Peter O’Toole in “Venus” (Miramax, Filmfour and UK Council)Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness” (Sony Pictures Releasing)Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland” (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actress in a leading rolePenélope Cruz in “Volver” (Sony Pictures Classics)Judi Dench in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)Helen Mirren in “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox)Kate Winslet in “Little Children” (New Line)

Performance by an actress in a supporting roleAdriana Barraza in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)Cate Blanchett in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)Abigail Breslin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)Rinko Kikuchi in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)

Best foreign language film of the year“After the Wedding” A Zentropa Entertainments 16 ProductionDenmark“Days of Glory (Indigènes)” A Tessalit ProductionAlgeria“The Lives of Others” A Wiedemann & Berg ProductionGermany“Pan’s Labyrinth” A Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production Mexico“Water” A Hamilton-Mehta Production Canada

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)“I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth”(Paramount Classics and Participant Productions) Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge“Listen” from “Dreamgirls”(DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry Krieger and Scott CutlerLyric by Anne Preven“Love You I Do” from “Dreamgirls”(DreamWorks and Paramount) Music by Henry KriegerLyric by Siedah Garrett“Our Town” from “Cars”(Buena Vista)Music and Lyric by Randy Newman“Patience” from “Dreamgirls”(DreamWorks and Paramount)Music by Henry KriegerLyric by Willie Reale

Lindsay Lohan plays Ashley, the luckiest woman on earth. She’s young, has a great career, gets a taxi whenever she wants and the sun always shine when she’s out. But it all changes when she kisses a stranger at a costume party. He is the unluckiest man on earth and they somehow change their luck.

I read or heard somewhere that this was suppose to be Lindsay’s first venture into more adult roles…the character Ashley is about 23…but I didn’t really think it worked. She was hardly believable as a 23 year old….and a career woman??…No no…she still looked like as if she’s in high school. I’m not sure who’s to blame…her for not being able to play the role?…but then again it may have been written that way. The story and the script are pretty weak. Everything is just soo cheesy (Don’t you think it also has horrible posters?). And I can’t believe they actually have McFly in it…didn’t know until I watch the movie…obviously desperately trying to break into the American market. I think you can always tell that a movie is going to be bad once you see a pop band weaved into it as a back story.

Basically yes it was quite bad. Not something I would watch again. Its a movie for those who love teen flicks, romantic comedies or anyone below the age of 12.

Disturbia poster is finally released. It has been said how similar the storyline is to Rear Window…I’m not really sure it is intented to be a remake…but anyway I have mentioned that I wanted to watch Rear Window first so that I could compare Disturbia with it later…So anyhow I have recently watch Rear Window…and I will put up a short review of it soon. Really curious how this movie will turn out.

The Nanny Diaries Trailer

Yes yes. The trailer is out….and it looks funny. Should be good. Check it out yourself here.

LOVEFiLM Hidden Picture Game

I love hidden picture gave. Several weeks ago I posted the link to M&M movie hidden picture game. You can still view it here. I recently found another one by LOVEFiLM. This time you have to find 100 films. I’ve found at least half. Click on the picture to view a larger version.

P.S. is about basically about Louise who works at Admissions for Columbia. She is a lonely 39 year old woman whose only friends are her ex-husband and her long time best friend who lives in another town. One day she gets an application from a certain F. Scott Fienstadt …the same name as her high school love who died very young. Curious as to who he is, she sets up an interview. Shockingly…she found that not only does he share the same name…they are pretty much alike in character…using the same quotes…even her best friend agrees…Could he be an incarnation…maybe a relative? And seeing also how much alike he is…she could hardly resist him and they soon begin an affair.

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Another movie that I’ve heard close to nothing about. Rented it cause I thought the story seemed interesting…a tad like Birth right?? But that movie wasn’t really that good…P.S was actually quite good…wasn’t as freaky as seeing a grown woman going into a bathtub with a child. Here Louise is 39 and F Scott is at least 20…hardly a child…now it kinda sounds like The Graduate right?…Only that its not. Through out the film I did find myself wondering who is this F Scott…of course he couldn’t be Louise late lover…as she some how believes…In the end…it was a simple coincidence…which I thought was the best way to end it.

Keeping this short. The movie was worth the watch. The story is there. The acting was rather good. Laura Linney as the lonely woman living a rather unfulfilled life and Topher Grace playing the usual smart alec role. I say watch this instead of Birth.

Jennifer Love Hewitt doesn’t really act in much movies does she? Even if she does…it’ll be like in those crappy looking ones like The Tuxedo and Garfield ( I say that because I haven’t actually watch them) or her movies go entirely unnotice…at least thats what I thought happened to The Truth About Love and If Only. I don’t think they even got a theatrical release in Singapore…it was straight to DVD.

Well anyway…I actually liked The Truth About Love. I thought it was a rather funny,sweet and sad tale of a woman who believed she was in a happy marriage until she found out the truth…So when I found If Only at the rental store…thought I might like this one too…but nope I didn’t. I was truly bored…I wanted it to end.

The Truth About Love was sweet and even funny at times…but If Only was just extremely heavy on romance…and melodramtic too I thought. Basically the story is of Ian and Samantha… a young couple who love each other dearly… only problem is that Ian has trouble showing his love. One day, after a fight where they nearly broke up…Samantha dies in a car crash…and Ian regrets that he never told her how much he love her. Luckily for him though…by some miracle…he got to relive the day…Thus he tries to change little things…so that the end would be different and of course to tell Samantha that he loves her in every way possible….and blah blah…

The story was just ok…the dialogue was pretty bad…acting so so…Way too may cringe worthy moments. Sometimes I think…this was just an excuse to have Jennifer sing on screen…or maybe…she was just making use of the time she was in England (get it? The Truth About Love was also set in England). So overall…bad movie. Not recommended.

This poster has recently been released and the movie stars Kate Bosworth. Not really sure what the movie is really about. The movie’s page on IMDB is pretty empty. Its plot outline only says that its the story of a young woman caught between life and death who fights against the funeral director who has a hand in her fate. You can check it out here. But does the poster not look interesting? I thought it did. And creepy too…A spirit arising from its dead body. It kinda reminds me of the Corpse Bride and even Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas. I mean with the pale skin and tangled hair…a bit like Sally right? Of course Sally has dark hair and is only an animated character…Could this be a good supernatural flick? By the looks of the poster…it could be.

Four friends and small time criminals pool their money together to play in a high stakes game. But when they loose, they ended up owing half a million pounds to Hatchet Harry. Pay within one week or start losing their fingers. Where are they going to get the money? Maybe the thin walls will save them??

I didn’t know much about this movie in the first place. It just looked like the typical gangster type of flick…with a lot of guns and violence. I also knew that this was a British film…and when I was checking out the special features…they had a guide to Cockney…I was thinking….not another movie I won’t be able get what they’re saying with their thick accents and slang.

Surprisingly though…I managed to pretty much understand what they were talking about…the slang used wasn’t that bad….ok maybe the subtitles helped me a bit…especially since they fast talk a lot. And Hah…was I wrong about the movie. I mean sure it’s a gangster movie with guns and violence…but ultimately it is a comedy. Even the tagline goes…Disgracing Criminals Everywhere.

And it is a very funny comedy at that… with a lot of dark humour. Almost everything that comes out of Eddie and his friends mouth is bound to draw a few laughs. The plot too is there . Its fast paced with a lot of twist and turns…that makes you want to watch what kind of ridiculous hole everyone is getting themselves into. The shots are stylish, the music is loud and very fitting for such a movie…and the dialogue…very sharp and smart. Overall…an entertaining and funny film. I would have never have thought that I would actually like it…but I do. Recommended.

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